The jirga, which will take place on April 17, will chalk out a line of action. PHOTO: FILE
Tribal elders from ‘Khattak Ittihad’ expressed their reservations on Saturday about setting up an oil refinery in Kohat and decided to convene a grand jirga.
The jirga, which will take place on April 17, will chalk out a line of action regarding the decision of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s caretaker government to set up a refinery in Kohat instead of Karak, a major area for oil production. The elders felt this would deprive the area of earning royalties on oil production.
A meeting of the office bearers of ‘Khattak Ittihad’ was convened under the chair of Maulana Mirzaqeem at the Karak town hall. The meeting was attended by Rahim Khan, Captain (Retd) Lazzat Shah, Umer Badshah and other members. The group decided a grand jirga should be called to discuss and debate the issue of the oil refinery.
Mirzaqeem called on all political parties’ leaders in Karak district to participate in the jirga to unanimously address why Karak was being bereaved of its rights, and the oil refinery was being set up in Kohat at the cost of Karak.
Earlier, the elders held a sit-in at the deputy commissioner’s office against excessive power outages in the area.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 14th, 2013.
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